Boltby

Boltby is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It is on the edge of the North York Moors National Park at 140 m, and about six miles north-east of Thirsk. According to the 2011 census, it had a population of 143.[1]

Boltby

Village of Boltby from the Cleveland Way
Boltby
Location within North Yorkshire
Population143 (2011 census)[1]
OS grid referenceSE491866
Civil parish
  • Boltby
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townTHIRSK
Postcode districtYO7
PoliceNorth Yorkshire
FireNorth Yorkshire
AmbulanceYorkshire
UK Parliament

History

Boltby is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Boltebi in the Yalestre hundred. After the Norman invasion, the land was owned by Hugh, son of Baldric. He granted Lordship of the local manor to Gerald of Boltby. Previously the Lord of the manor was Sumarlithi, son of Karli.[2]

Although now without a public house, it had four during the building of a reservoir and water supply to Thirsk. The last of these, The Johnstone Arms, is now a farm and riding stables. Fewer than five new houses have been built in the village in the 20th century, giving a total of 43 in 2005.

One oddity of the village is a deed giving free water 'in perpetuity' to the buildings in the area. This dates from the late 19th century when the new reservoir was built and water piped through the land of Ravensthorpe Manor.

The eastern part of the village was badly affected by the flooding in 2005 when the Gurtof Beck overflowed and damaged or destroyed several buildings. The local reports were of water levels between 2-3m deep.[3]

Governance

The village lies within the Thirsk and Malton UK Parliament constituency. It is part of the Thirsk electoral division of North Yorkshire County Council and the Whitestonecliffe ward of Hambleton District Council.[4]

The parish shares a grouped parish council, known as Hillside Parish Council, with the civil parishes of Cowesby, Felixkirk, Kirby Knowle and Upsall.[5]

Geography

According to the 1881 UK Census, the population was 317.[6] The 2001 UK Census recorded the population as 149, of which 124 were over the age of sixteen with 81 in employment. There are 70 dwellings of which 52 are detached.[7] The population at the 2011 Census had reduced slightly to 143.[8]

The low level geology of the area is of Devensian clay on beds of lower Jurassic lias.[3]

The village lies 1.4 miles (2.3 km) west of the Cleveland Way National Trails. It is also 1.2 miles (1.9 km) south-east of Boltby Reservoir, which was built in 1882. The reservoir is 14.1 metres (46 ft) deep and covers an area of 3.1 hectares (7.7 acres) from a catchment are of 3.41 square kilometres (1.32 sq mi).[9]

The village is located 1.3 miles (2.1 km) south-east of Kirby Knowle; 1.8 miles (2.9 km) north-east of Felixkirk; 1.6 miles (2.6 km) north of Thirlby and 3 miles (4.8 km) north-west of Cold Kirby which are the nearest settlements.[4]

Religion
Holy Trinity Church, Boltby

There is one church in the village, dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The modern building was rebuilt around 1856 on the site of the earlier churches, re-built around 1409 and 1802 respectively.[6] Parish registers date from around 1600.[10]

Notable buildings

There are nine Grade II Listed Buildings in the village and nearby area. These include the bridge over Gurtof Beck.[11] Ravensthorpe Manor House, built in the mid 19th century, is situated about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) west of the village.[6][12]

Historic estates

Ravensthorpe
Remnant of the mediaeval moat of Ravensthorpe Castle

About 1.0 mile (1.6 km) south of the village and to the immediate north-west of Tang Hall Farm[13] (also known as Ravensthorpe Mill), is the site of the mediaeval moated castle or fortified manor house[14] of Ravensthorpe,[15] listed three times as a subsidiary manor in the Domesday Book of 1086, as Ravenestorp and Ravenetorp.[16] In 1272 it consisted of a capital messuage and six tofts, with a watermill.[17] The manorial mill survives as Ravensthorpe Mill. William de Cantilupe, 1st Baron Cantilupe (1262-1308) signed and sealed the Barons' Letter of 1301 as Willelmus de Cantilupo, Dominus de Ravenesthorp.[18] He had inherited the manor on his second marriage, to Eve de Bolteby, second daughter and co-heiress of Adam de Bolteby of Ravensthorpe and Boltby and of Langley in Northumberland, and widow successively of Alan de Walkingham (d.1283) of Cowthorpe, Yorkshire and Richard Knout (d.1291). Cantilupe's other seats included Greasley in Nottinghamshire; Ilkeston in Derbyshire and Middle Claydon in Buckinghamshire. His inquisition post mortem of 1308 records that his manor of Ravensthorpe contained 24 bovates of demesne land; one free tenant; 29 cottars; five bondmen holding four bovates each, and three holding three bovates each. The watermill was worth £5 per annum.[17] In 1362, on the death of Joan (widow of Sir William de Kyme), second wife and widow of Nicholas de Cantilupe, 3rd Baron Cantilupe (d.1355), Ravensthorpe passed under an entail to Sir William de Cantilupe (1344-1375), the younger of the two sons of William de Cantilupe, 4th Baron Cantilupe (1325- 1375). On the death of Sir William de Cantilupe in 1375, Ravensthorpe passed to Sir Robert de Ros of Ingmanthorpe, from whom it escheated to the crown in 1377, passing in purparties to William la Zouche the younger and Sir Reynold Grey of Ruthin, in 1390 and 1391 respectively.[19]

References
  1. UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Boltby Parish (1170216806)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  2. Boltby in the Domesday Book. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  3. Yorkshire Geological Society Circular 525 (PDF). 2005. p. 9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 August 2008. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  4. Ordnance Survey Open Viewer
  5. "Hillside Parish Council". Hambleton District Council. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  6. Bulmer's Topography, History and Directory (Private and Commercial) of North Yorkshire 1890. S&N Publishing. 1890. p. 699. ISBN 1-86150-299-0.
  7. "2001 UK Census". Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  8. "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  9. Human Impact on Erosion and Sedimentation (Proceedings of the Rabat Symposium, April 1997) (PDF). 1997. p. 172. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  10. "Church". Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  11. "Grade II Listed Buildings". Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  12. "Ravensthorpe Hall Listing". Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  13. N. Grid Ref. 495850
  14. https://ancientmonuments.uk/102332-ravensthorpe-manor-house-site-of-boltby
  16. https://opendomesday.org/place/SE4985/ravensthorpe-manor/
  17. http://wikimapia.org/18419519/Ravensthorpe-Manor-House-site
  18. GEC Complete Peerage, vol.3, p.112
  19. GEC Complete Peerage, vol.3, p.114, note c

Further reading
  • Boltby Millennium Group. Boltby: A History. 2002.
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